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POSC 100 Exam 3
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| individual's views about the fundamental nature of human beings, society, and economy; taken together they compromise the political culture | core beliefs |
| individual's views about public policy, political parties, candidates, government institutions, and public officials | political attitudes |
| political attitudes and core beliefs expressed by ordinary citizens as revealed by surveys | public opinion |
| an interview study asking questions of a set of people who are chosen as representative of the whole population | sample survey |
| the selection of survey respondents by chance, with equal probability, to ensure their representativeness of the whole population | random sampling |
| the process by which individuals come to have certain core beliefs and political attitudes | political socialization |
| people who identify with a party, vote in elections, and participate in additional party and party-candidate activities | active partisan |
| a system of interrelated and coherently patterned beliefs and attitudes | political ideology |
| the political attitudes of the public as a whole, expressed as averages, percentages, or other summaries of many individua's opinions | collective public opinion |
| a president's standing with the public, indicated by the percentage of American's who tell survey interviewers that they approve a president's "handling of his job" | presidential approval rating |
| the sense of belonging to one or another political party | party identification |
| people who favor private enterprise and oppose government regulations on spending | economic conservatives |
| people who favor government regulation of business and government spending for social programs | economic liberals |
| people who favor civil liberties, abortion rights, and alternative lifestyles | social (lifestyle) liberals |
| people who favor traditional social values; they tend to support strong law-and-order measures and oppose abortion and gay rights | social (lifestyle) conservatives |
| citizen's preferences concerning what policies they want government to pursue | policy preferences |
| the policy of avoiding involvement in foreign affairs | isolationism |
| the stance toward foreign policy that suggests that the United States should "go it alone", pursing its national interests without seeking the cooperation of other nations or multilateral institutions | unilateralist |
| the stance toward foreign policy that suggets that the United States should seek cooperation of other nations and multilateral institutions in pursing its goals | multilateralist |
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